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Some of Apple’s recent advertisements for the iPhone 5 has bothered me for some time now. The ads in question are their “Brilliant” and “Discover” ads seen below: Brilliant: Discover: My biggest issue with this ad is that while it might seem to build interest in the new iPhone 5 through the apps shown in…

This could be the title of the new Bronze Radio Return album and it would be a great way to describe this fantastic bands rising star status. My wife, and I recently got the chance to see them for the second time live at the Hamilton Live in DC as part of their CD Release…

This was my strategy for cutting some cord – reducing our cable / internet down to about $70 a month by bundling Upgraded internet cable modem service with the most basic 15 channel cable package. We were paying over $100 a month to Comcast prior to switching to this combo. What we have is Power…

I’ve noticed an annoying phenomenon as of late regarding e-mail newsletters. I, like I assume many, view most of these newsletters on my phone. These HTML newsletters often contain links to feature articles on a website. Lately, I’ve noticed a disturbing web presence trend for these newsletters to automatically force me to a mobile friendly…

This article by Luke Wroblewski got me thinking that the cellphone of the 2010’s is the digital equivalent infrastructure to the brick and mortar shopping mall of the 80’s. In the 80’s we went to the mall to: Socialize with friends, Play games at the arcade, and Shop for things we wanted. The mall was…

I remember playing Bezerk, Spike, Pole Position and many other great games on this odd ball little Vectrex arcade system. It was a cheaper version of Atari or Intellivision and allowed you to have a somewhat portable display and controller all-in-one unit. What other game systems do you remember playing?

This week is National Board Game and Puzzle week – in honor of that, I thought I’d pose the question of what was your favorite board game growing up? I have to give my top 5 given that I had so many favorites and the games that fired them, given that most of these were…

I’m starting a new posting tag – Wayback Wednesday in honor of the many comments on previous retro posts on my Facebook Timeline. This week we celebrate the release of the 25th anniversary deluxe edition of Peter Gabriel album So. So raise your boomboxes in the rain and angst along with me – What was…

This year, I made a New Year’s resolution to end as many contracts as possible. Many of the monthly contracts we had were around telephone service. The first one we was able to drop was home phone service. We already had dropped a physical land line service a while back by switching from Verizon to…